Word: greys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hedonism of the 1960s and the obsessive self-improvement of the Me decade. But until something new replaces it, materialism will in some fashion continue to fill the void. "There is a free-floating sense of searching for a value system," says Ann Clurman, a vice president of Grey Advertising. "All the instincts of the baby boomers are saying, 'Slow down. Figure out what's important.' But they haven't arrived at what that...
...accused will not face death. So far, Canadian authorities have not sought those promises in the Ng and Kindler cases; the defendants' lawyers want the court to order Canada to do so. "Technical distinctions such as borders have little relevance when human life is at stake," argues Julius Grey, Kindler's lawyer. "Canada should not be party to anything to do with capital punishment...
...Smith, a hardened veteran of Soviet life, such problems are old hat. After returning to the U.S. from three years in Moscow, he authored The Russians in 1974, an exceptionally readable patchwork of anecdotes, interviews and personal experiences of the grey life under Brezhnev...
...says the avant-garde artist, paraphrasing her idol Samuel Beckett. Her productions are always an evocative blend of dance, music, words and light, but to her latest piece, Endangered Species, she brings something + entirely new: live animals, including Flora, a baby elephant, and Clarke's own horse, Mr. Grey. She maintains that they're being used as "sentient creatures" rather than beasts of burden or embarrassed icons. Finishing the work, which focuses on mankind's domination of nature, has given the former modern dancer little chance to use the $285,000 MacArthur fellowship that she won in July. Says Clarke...
...Senator sees the G.O.P.: "The Grey Poupon crowd, the Gucci-poochie- coochie shoe-wearing, Mercedes-driving, polo-playing, Jacuzzi-soaking, Perrier-drinking, Aspen-skiing, ritzy-rich, high-society Republicans who eat broccoli." Leaving out George Bush...